radio net (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:28:02 -0400
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com>
> Subject: Re: radio net

> Someone here already said it, but nobody else got it, so I'll repeat it:
> SSB, or Single Sideband. It's commercial ham radio, if you will, and all
> the ships use it. I expect that you can shove anything down an SSB set that
> you want, including encrypted traffic.
> 
> Ham radio is a government nerd subsidy, and as such, doesn't do much but
> make more government funded/sactioned/approved/whatever nerds. :-).
> 
> SSB would do just fine. It's an international standard, after all, and
> probably not under the control of any one government, even.e

Single-sideband (SSB) isn't an international standard, it's a physical
effect.

See:

The Art of Electronics
Horowitz, Hill
ISBN 0-521-37095-7
pp. 897


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